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PTI
Bangkok: Premier Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth need to shrug off the disappointments of the last two weeks as they gear up for the highly-competitive HSBC BWF World Tour Finals, beginning in Bangkok on Wednesday.
World champion and Olympic silver medallist Sindhu, who had won the prestigious title in 2018, has been clubbed in Group B alongside top-ranked Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese Taipei and home favourites Ratchanok Intanon and Pornpawee Chochuwong.
Sindhu s comeback to international badminton after the coronavirus-induced break was not as good as she would have expected. The Indian, who has been training in London for the last few months, couldn t go the distance after losing a close opening match in Thailand Open, the first of the Asia leg.
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Taiwan’s top badminton men’s doubles pair yesterday won another title in Bangkok at the Toyota Thailand Open, but world No. 1 Tai Tzu-ying (戴資穎) once again lost to Spain’s Carolina Marin in the women’s singles.
For the second week in a row, Taiwan’s top players in the women’s singles and the men’s doubles competed in the finals in Bangkok, which is hosting three Badminton World Federation (BWF) tournaments, the last of which ends on Sunday.
The world No. 6 pairing of Lee Yang (李洋) and Wang Chi-lin (王齊麟) triumphed again in the men’s doubles, beating world No. 9 duo Aaron